Rashid Johnson Quotes
Dealing with actors is incredibly complex because they oftentimes are like pieces of clay. They want to be told how you want it done. You have to then decide if you want to be the teller or if you want to give them agency.
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Drug manufacturers could afford to sell AIDS drugs in Africa at virtually any discount. The companies said they did not do so because Africa lacked the requisite infrastructure.
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I don't pray because I don't want to bore God.
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It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.
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At some point, you decide to take something you really like and turn it into a business you love.
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I decide immediately if I like a person and if I do, then I'm myself, and if I don't, then I give nothing.
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We did not become libertarians because we are altruists.
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I remain on 'SVU' because it is an incredible opportunity.
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You really think that on my films people tell me what to do? I don't think so. On my films I decide.
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I'm always the cousin that can't make it to the family functions because I'm busy.
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I wanted to play incredibly challenging, multifaceted characters. Because we are all a puzzle.
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I don't know what would I do in future; I'll decide it later.
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I don't decide my politics based on the flavour of the month.
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At school, I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking.
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I just have a thing for writers. Maybe it because I'm just so not a writer.
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Something even minor I do is going to be reported because of things that have happened in the past. You have to be aware of that.
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Everything I do today is because of what I did when I was 14.
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I've always been partial to werewolves, perhaps because there's a desperation to their plight that resonates.
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I didn't know writers could be real live people, because I never knew any writers.
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Life consists only of moments, nothing more than that. So if you make the moment matter, it all matters.
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We're always in that head space about the audience and less about us at that moment.
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You may know more about vintage wine than the wine steward, but if you're smart you'll let your man do the choosing and be ecstatic over his selection, even if it tastes like shampoo.
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Dealing with actors is incredibly complex because they oftentimes are like pieces of clay. They want to be told how you want it done. You have to then decide if you want to be the teller or if you want to give them agency.
